CAPTAIN COOK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 8

CAPTAIN COOK.

LANDINGS IN NEW ZEALAND. §1 MEMORIALS SUGGESTED. 'm (By Telegraph.—Own CoraMpondmt.) BLENHEIM, Tuesday. -*-£ The hope that the Government May § be induced to take practical interest ia',V/ providing memorials to mark the variom rfj landing places used by Captain Cook la Xew Zealand is expressed by Captain J. D. McComish. now ©f Sydney, in a.'jSf; letter to the Captain Cook Memorial .iji Committee. "As an Aucklander myself, I am ashamed that this matter has beea Hi neglected so long," he says. i At present at Lord Howe Island,' ~Swhere *he_ is engaged in collertiag || plant specimens for various botani- "Hjf cal museums. Captain McComish re- >ft oently askwl for information regarding the Cook Memorial at Ship Cove. Queen pf Charlotte Sound, which was supplied him together with photographs. In a letter of acknowledgment, he mh! that he had just written to the secretary of.*-'? the recently-formed Auckland Historical' Society suggesting that the society H should take up the matter of providing ¥ suitable memorials at tfie landing places* % of Captain Cook in the Auckland Pro- 2 vincc as a ccntenary effort. The secretary of the Royal Australian Historical Society. Mr. Cramp, who f; would visit Auckland shortly, he said, had offered to see the Auckland people and try to pitfli the matter along. His society bad done wonderful work in conjunction with similar organisations and the fiovermiient In marking all Captain Cook's landing places on the Australian coifst. In one case high school pupils at a place some miles diltant fronj a point named by • Captain Cook had themselves subscribed for and erected a tablet, and that was an example that mijrht well be followed in , Xew Zealand. Captain McComish added that he would like to «ec memorials erected in Admiralty Bay and Dusky Sound, both of which places had been named by Captain Cook.